Author: Lucas A. Powe Jr.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520970012
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Texas has created more constitutional law than any other state. In any classroom nationwide, any basic constitutional law course can be taught using nothing but Texas cases. That, however, understates the history and politics behind the cases. Beyond representing all doctrinal areas of constitutional law, Texas cases deal with the major issues of the nation. Leading legal scholar and Supreme Court historian Lucas A. Powe, Jr., charts the rich and pervasive development of Texas-inspired constitutional law. From voting rights to railroad regulations, school finance to capital punishment, poverty to civil liberties, this wide-ranging and eminently readable book provides a window into the relationship between constitutional litigation and ordinary politics at the Supreme Court, illuminating how all of the fiercest national divides over what the Constitution means took shape in Texas.
America's Lone Star Constitution
Author: Lucas A. Powe Jr.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520970012
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Texas has created more constitutional law than any other state. In any classroom nationwide, any basic constitutional law course can be taught using nothing but Texas cases. That, however, understates the history and politics behind the cases. Beyond representing all doctrinal areas of constitutional law, Texas cases deal with the major issues of the nation. Leading legal scholar and Supreme Court historian Lucas A. Powe, Jr., charts the rich and pervasive development of Texas-inspired constitutional law. From voting rights to railroad regulations, school finance to capital punishment, poverty to civil liberties, this wide-ranging and eminently readable book provides a window into the relationship between constitutional litigation and ordinary politics at the Supreme Court, illuminating how all of the fiercest national divides over what the Constitution means took shape in Texas.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520970012
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Texas has created more constitutional law than any other state. In any classroom nationwide, any basic constitutional law course can be taught using nothing but Texas cases. That, however, understates the history and politics behind the cases. Beyond representing all doctrinal areas of constitutional law, Texas cases deal with the major issues of the nation. Leading legal scholar and Supreme Court historian Lucas A. Powe, Jr., charts the rich and pervasive development of Texas-inspired constitutional law. From voting rights to railroad regulations, school finance to capital punishment, poverty to civil liberties, this wide-ranging and eminently readable book provides a window into the relationship between constitutional litigation and ordinary politics at the Supreme Court, illuminating how all of the fiercest national divides over what the Constitution means took shape in Texas.
Official Summary of Security Transactions and Holdings
Author: United States. Securities and Exchange Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Securities
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
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Category : Securities
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Farm Worker Occupational Safety and Health
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Agricultural Labor
Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Hearings, Reports, Public Laws
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher:
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Category : Educational law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1726
Book Description
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Category : Educational law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1726
Book Description
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
Author: David Thomson
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307271749
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
Thomson (independent scholar), writing of The Biographical Dictionary of Film (aka A Biographical Dictionary of the Cinema, 1975 edition), described it as "a personal, opinionated, and obsessive biographical dictionary of the cinema." Thirty-five years and several editions later, that description still holds true of this expanded work. The new dictionary summarizes salient facts about its subjects' lives and discusses their film credits in terms of the quality of the filmmakers' work. In ambition it has competitors, including Leslie Halliwell's various editions of Halliwell's Filmgoers Companion (12th ed., 1997) and Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies, edited by John Walker (4th ed., rev. and updated, 2006), which cover films and technical terms (categories not included in Thomson's), but whose entries are neutral and exceedingly brief. Additionally, Francophile Richard Roud's edited Cinema: A Critical Dictionary: The Major Filmmakers (2 v., 1980) is as passionate a work as Thomson's, but narrower in scope, with entries written by various experts, rather than only by Roud. Finally, the multivolume magnum opus The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers (4th ed., 2000, ed. by T. Pendergast and S. Pendergast; 2nd ed., ed. by N. Thomas, v. 1, CH, May'91; 1st ed., ed. by C. Lyon, v.1-2, CH, Jan'85, v.3, CH, Apr'87, v.4-5, CH, Jun'88) covers everything--films, directors, actors, writers, and production artists--with generous, measured, scholarly entries and lavish illustrations. However, it looms large and heavy, unlike the handy one-volume work by Thomson. Arguably, Thomson's work, for its scope, is the most fun, the most convenient, and the most engaging title. All libraries supporting people interested in film should buy it. It will get lots of use and provide very good value for the money. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. General Readers; Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty; Professionals/Practitioners. Reviewed by C. Hendershott.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307271749
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
Thomson (independent scholar), writing of The Biographical Dictionary of Film (aka A Biographical Dictionary of the Cinema, 1975 edition), described it as "a personal, opinionated, and obsessive biographical dictionary of the cinema." Thirty-five years and several editions later, that description still holds true of this expanded work. The new dictionary summarizes salient facts about its subjects' lives and discusses their film credits in terms of the quality of the filmmakers' work. In ambition it has competitors, including Leslie Halliwell's various editions of Halliwell's Filmgoers Companion (12th ed., 1997) and Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies, edited by John Walker (4th ed., rev. and updated, 2006), which cover films and technical terms (categories not included in Thomson's), but whose entries are neutral and exceedingly brief. Additionally, Francophile Richard Roud's edited Cinema: A Critical Dictionary: The Major Filmmakers (2 v., 1980) is as passionate a work as Thomson's, but narrower in scope, with entries written by various experts, rather than only by Roud. Finally, the multivolume magnum opus The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers (4th ed., 2000, ed. by T. Pendergast and S. Pendergast; 2nd ed., ed. by N. Thomas, v. 1, CH, May'91; 1st ed., ed. by C. Lyon, v.1-2, CH, Jan'85, v.3, CH, Apr'87, v.4-5, CH, Jun'88) covers everything--films, directors, actors, writers, and production artists--with generous, measured, scholarly entries and lavish illustrations. However, it looms large and heavy, unlike the handy one-volume work by Thomson. Arguably, Thomson's work, for its scope, is the most fun, the most convenient, and the most engaging title. All libraries supporting people interested in film should buy it. It will get lots of use and provide very good value for the money. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. General Readers; Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty; Professionals/Practitioners. Reviewed by C. Hendershott.
Report of the Executive Committee
Author: American Baptist Home Mission Society
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Varieties of Cotton for Central East Texas
Author: Harry Forrest Morris
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
1980 Census of Population and Housing
Author:
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Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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The California Teacher
Author:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
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